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Tag Archives: Death
“I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.”
- George Carlin
“A Moveable Feast” by Ernest Hemingway
We revisit Hemingway's classic to contemplate how the deaths of WWI hovered over Paris' "roaring" years.
I’d never meditated on “A Moveable Feast“’s relationship with death. Sure, I’d thought of Ernest Hemingway’s classic as a book about the obvious: hunger and gratitude, honesty and unrelenting love. F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were champions of the latter … Continue reading
Elephant Mourning Rituals
Decades of research and observation show elephants experience sorrow and grief
Elephants are one of the most intelligent of all animals. Their brains contain over 300 billion neurons as well as a highly developed cerebral cortex that is similar in complexity to that of humans and larger than that of almost … Continue reading
“A Dog Has Died” by Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda's factual ode weeps through wide-open eyes
Pablo Neruda is a great master of understatement, weaving the sparest details around the complexity of loss with a cry that carries its own weight and does not ask to be comforted. The first four lines of his poem “A Dog … Continue reading
Posted in The Next Chapter
Tagged Chile, Dead pets, Death, Death of a pet, Graceful Mournings, Grief, Grieving, Isla Negra, Losing a pet, Pablo Neruda, Pablo Neruda poetry, Pet loss, Poetry
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“The Thing About Life is That One Day You’ll Be Dead” by David Shields
An author explores the meaning of life and death through data
At 97 years old, David Shields’ father was still a firecracker with a fierce sense of optimism. Shields simply couldn’t explain how a man of that age could retain such vigor for life, and he was determined to figure out … Continue reading
“If love would die along with death this life wouldn’t be so hard.”
- Andrew Vachss
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged andrew vachss, Death, Grief, Life and Death, living with grief
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